Art Hotel William Bratislava

... leaving it) and found the guy still eyeballing the car. Since he could see we were on to him he came over and talked to us and asked about Lincoln. He claimed he was waiting for a friend who was meeting him there. Right. Finally he went away and then we alerted a security guard to the troublemaker before returning to my parents.<br><br>We wandered around and found that the city had a few tourist signs that helped us locate some ...

... were friendly and helpful, with the exception of one concierge, who had clearly been caught up in the theme (or was yet to hear the news that the Cold War had ended in 1989).<br><br>Bratislava&#8217;s old town features many places of interest including the primatial palace, Michael&#8216;s gate,medieval fortifications and a large number of quirky statues (man at work, papparazzi etc). We enjoyed a stroll around the town before settling in for a few beverages on ...

... accent. Just something interesting I thought I'd pass along. Anyway, Katie and I headed through town to the boat. We ate breakfast and waited for the boat to pull up. After boarding and dropping our stuff we headed upstairs to enjoy our ride on the Danube. We passed fishing huts and our cell phones informed us when we passed into Austria. We said goodbye to Slovakia after a really pleasant visit but were excited for the rest of the adventure ahead.

... a Zlatý Bazant beer and Rosemary had her usual lemonade. Unfortunately they tried to charge us for vegetables we hadn't ordered. We had seen people walking up the street with ice cream cones, so we went looking for the ice cream shop. It was just around the corner. Paul had blackberry ice cream and Rosemary had hazelnut. Back at the hostel we had showers, then sat outside on the patio writing our journals. We managed to stay up until 9:30 pm but it wasn't easy.

... three, how I wish the trains to Kiev ran on weekends... (On the plus side I have got 450 pages into Bill Clinton's autobiography.) I did enjoy a visit in solitude to the Slavin Hill War Memorial, a soaring piece of socialist realist monument work that even today leaves you with the impression that the army it commemorates is an army of supermen. Seen in the autumn, with every tree a black skeleton and the sky an even ominous grey, the effect is magnified. Again I ...

... Bratislava towards the National Museum we got a fair few funny looks. Museum was ok, there was a travelling exibition about the assasination of one of the leaders of the SS, but it was all in Slovak and the great wealth of things to see lost some of their meaning. Next we walked to the large castle that overlooks the city. We walked up and up and up, reached the castle, enjoyed the view and then walked on to the ...

... good cheap food and Christmas items. We spent some time strolling around and had some food. We tried not to see too much of the city exactly still having more time here later on, but we walked quite a ways. We ended up back at the train station to get the details on the better arrival times for trains headed to Innsbruck, rather than arriving there at 2AM. Mission accomplished, we'll take a late morning train and get there around 18:30. 26 November ...

At the onset of the day I arrived in Bratislava I was excited to see the city. Bratislava hadn't really been too high on my list of places to visit, but it was in between Krakow and Budapest, so it seemed like one of those 'why not' places to see. No fellow traveler had given it any ringing endorsement, at least until I caught up with Adrian and CJ who really enjoyed the place, and since I respected their opinion more than any other random backpacker, I expected ...

... a world that provides ever-increasing ability to export one's irrational delusions. Oh, and I got to hear him tell me about how he has killed men. Fun stuff. Maybe that's what made me drink the Green Death (Absinthe) at the next bar. Maybe not. Who knows? I certainly didn't after two shots of 140 proof liquid brain tranquilizer. And then ... pizza followed by, oh, 10 hours or so of sleep. Good stuff, sleep. I get the feeling I am making up for a fifteen year sleep ...

... right, there is also a blue shadow on bright objects. The thing that finally clinched it was when you rotate an image it re-encodes it. Rotating an image a number of time results in some interesting JPEG artefacts. In a summery, I was deleting too many pictures that any other camera would have captured perfectly well. All the pictures I do have are OK for internet viewing, but as display technologies improve I want images that don ...